An Apartment-based Metaphor for Intuitive Interaction with Ambient Assisted Living Applications

Abstract

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) aims at supporting elderly people in their daily lives, allowing them to grow old at home. In order to provide easy remote control over the rapidly growing number of assistance services from anywhere in the apartment, many AAL environments offer a universal control device. However, the problem of structuring the numerous services for intuitive usage has not been solved satisfactorily yet. This paper introduces a spatial metaphor for universal control devices to structure available services based on the elderly person’s own apartment. We carried out a study with 18 younger elderly people using a prototype to evaluate the appropriateness and acceptance of this metaphor. The results included in this paper show that this apartment metaphor is appropriate and accepted by this main target group of AAL.

Contributors

Sebastian Adam

Kizito Ssamula Mukasa

Kai Breiner

Marcus Trapp

Conference

Publication date: September 2008

Publication date (Print): September 2008

Pages: 67-75

Affiliations

Fraunhofer IESE

Fraunhofer-Platz 1

67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

Software Engineering Research Group

University of Kaiserslautern

67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2008.7

Copyright statement: © Sebastian Adam et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. People and Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

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Conference name: People and Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 22

Conference location: Conference Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Conference date: 1 - 5 September 2008

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing